BensGrandad
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Does this mean that I can travel by train from Haywards Heath just by purchasing the voucher as I do now for free, but still a lot cheaper than a day return.
Does this mean that I can travel by train from Haywards Heath just by purchasing the voucher as I do now for free, but still a lot cheaper than a day return.
Where would you buy the Shoreham to Falmer ticket? On the train? Or could you get one at Littlehampton?
Sorry, Al. I don't understand what you're saying.From what I understand Martin Perry saying, your travel voucher will cover that.
We went for our presentation this morning and asked lots of questions about the travel voucher.
It is £25 for 25 vouchers. Obviously this works out at £1 per voucher and they are valid within the previously set out region, but what we found out today is that the voucher is actually a discount voucher worth £3.
So if your return ticket to Falmer station is £5, then you will pay £2 + your voucher. Our return ticket from Newhaven is £3.10 so we will have to pay 10p on top. The day saver on the bus is £3.70 so you pay 70p.
Sorry, Al. I don't understand what you're saying.
If books of Travel Vouchers are sold for £1 a voucher, each individual Travel Voucher has a monetary value (to both the user and the transport operator). Individual Travel Vouchers will need to be collected in at some point, if the transport operator is to achieve that value. If they aren't collected, then people will be able to re-use the same voucher over and over again. The only way this can work is by exchanging a Voucher for a ticket. My question was: where will this transaction happen?
The current Travel Vouchers have no monetary value. The operators are reimbursed a contractual sum for taking part in the scheme. Users merely show their vouchers when (or if) asked to do so. The voucher is specific to a particular date and has no value, once that date has passed. The new system will be different, since books of vouchers will be sold.
A return journey by train from Shoreham to Falmer and back is actually FOUR separate journeys (Shoreham - Brighton; Brighton - Falmer; Falmer - Brighton; Brighton - Shoreham). The four journeys will be covered by ONE voucher, we are told. I'd just like to know how this will work.
There is a huge difference between a scheme which has involved just four transport operators (Southern, First Capital Connect, Brighton & Hove Buses and Stagecoach) and one that will involve very many more - including a load of small coach companies, some of whom will be chosen not by the Club but by a group of supporters or a pub landlord.You appear to be asking what the administrative details of the deal thrashed out between the club and the travel companies are. I've no idea. However, what could be put into place is something very similar to what we have now. i.e. with the deal regarding the travel operators being reimbursed a contractual sum for taking part in the scheme, then something similar has been arranged for Falmer.
There is a huge difference between a scheme which has involved just four transport operators (Southern, First Capital Connect, Brighton & Hove Buses and Stagecoach) and one that will involve very many more - including a load of small coach companies, some of whom will be chosen not by the Club but by a group of supporters or a pub landlord.
The information posted by Ned, back in February, gave his understanding of what the Club were proposing:-
Ned's example suggested that the voucher would be exchanged for a train ticket at the first railway station (Newhaven, in his case; Littlehampton in the example used earlier in this thread). That would work (at least from staffed stations operated by Southern). But Ned's example clearly indicates that money might have to change hands even at some stations that are WITHIN the travel zone. Newhaven is one; Shoreham would be another (where the adult off-peak day return fare to Falmer - bought on-line - is £3.90).
If the club hasn't chosen these small coach companies, will the club's travel vouchers be valid for the 'group of supporters or a pub landlord'?
Doubt it.
If the Travel Vouchers aren't valid on coaches, we are being sold a pup. Supporters are being encouraged to organise coach travel from all over. Bookings have already been made. I'm sure that the people intending to use coaches are expecting that the Travel Voucher scheme will cut their costs.If the club hasn't chosen these small coach companies, will the club's travel vouchers be valid for the 'group of supporters or a pub landlord'?
Doubt it.
There seems to be very little news on this.
Coming from Shoreham, until now I was undecided how I was going to travel to the Amex, however after doing a trial run on the train today with the kids (lucky enough to see the sign go up!) it took me just 26 minutes from Shoreham to Falmer and just 3 minutes more to be in the ground.
This is actually less time than it took me to drive from Shoreham, park at my mates flat (luckilly they lived at Mandalay Court on London road) and then walk to the ground.
So, the train it is for me. How long I have to wait for a train home might change my mind, but I doubt it, as I don't see many other options.
Anyhow, we are 1 adult and 2 kids. Younger kid may miss some evening games.
The train for 2 of us is £5.40 and £6.40 for the 3. Am I right in thinking that for £1, we can get £3 worth of travel?
If so, it would appear than I could buy 2 season long travel vouchers for £46 (2 x 23 games) and if just the 2 of us go, the fare is covered and if there are 3 of us, I just need to pay 40p to someone, somewhere?
Am I along the right tracks or am i deluded. Is there a link to something official of traveling?
If the Travel Vouchers aren't valid on coaches, we are being sold a pup. Supporters are being encouraged to organise coach travel from all over. Bookings have already been made. I'm sure that the people intending to use coaches are expecting that the Travel Voucher scheme will cut their costs.
The Club need to publicise the details of the scheme soon, otherwise - if you're right - there will be a lot of moaning.
That's another thing that I'd not heard suggested before. Where did you get this information?Surely the point is, away fans get a travel voucher with their ticket included in price,
Surely the point is, away fans get a travel voucher with their ticket included in price, home fans it's up to us how we get there. As we won't be able to park at the ground, unless you can walk to stadium you,ll need a voucher for part of the journey.
That's another thing that I'd not heard suggested before. Where did you get this information?
Or even a Network Card. I am sure that someone will correct me if I am wrong but with that you don't need to have a child in the party and could travel with 3 other grown up/fans (hopefully the same thing) and all get a discount.